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A female staff member at Watkins Elementary School in Washington, DC, has been placed on leave after reportedly making third-grade children reenact Holocaust-related scenes and making an anti-Semitic remark.

We write to you on behalf of the undersigned organizations, legal services providers, resettlement agencies, law firms, and law school clinics, to express our extreme concern regarding the exclusionary approach the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has adopted towards over 30,000 Afghans who have applied for Humanitarian Parole to the United States.

The COVID-19 pandemic has had an immeasurable impact on American children. And while the effects on social development and academic progress will take years — or generations — to assess, the virus also has taken an immediate toll.

More than 140,000 children in the United States have lost a parent or grandparent to COVID-19. In Washington, researchers estimate 1,428 children have suffered such a loss.

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The Washington State Department of Health asked the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to send investigators after more than a dozen reports of myocarditis. The feds will investigate if the heart inflammation is being triggered by the vaccine or is just a coincidence as more people get vaccinated.

CDC to investigate WA myocarditis cases and possible link to COVID vaccine May 28, 2021 at 10:58 am This Jan. 24, 2021, file photo shows a vial of the Pfizer vaccine for COVID-19 in Seattle. U.S. regulators on Monday, May 10, 2021, expanded use of Pfizers shot to those as young as 12, sparking a race to protect middle and high school students before they head back to class in the fall. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File) The Washington State Department of Health has asked the Cen...

Wednesday May 26th, 2021 12:00pm The National Lacrosse Hall of Fame announces the addition of eight new inductees as the Class of 2021. The 2021 inductees are: Sheehan Stanwick Burch, Patty Daley, Jenny Levy, Ryan McClay, John Pirro (posthumous), Tony Resch, Kris Snider, and Beth Stone.  The newest members will be officially inducted in a ceremony at a date to be announced in the near future. The National Lacrosse Hall of Fame, a program of USA Lacrosse, was established in 1957 to honor men an...

Wed May 26 2021 | Paul Ohanian | Fuel The National Lacrosse Hall of Fame announces the addition of eight new inductees as the Class of 2021.  The 2021 inductees are: Sheehan Stanwick Burch, Patty Daley, Jenny Levy, Ryan McClay, John Pirro (posthumous), Tony Resch, Kris Snider, and Beth Stone.  The newest members will be officially inducted in a ceremony at a date to be announced in the near future. The National Lacrosse Hall of Fame, a program of USA Lacrosse, was established in 1957 to honor...

Robert Heacock ASTORIA — Lewis and Clark National Historical Park’s monthly “In Their Footsteps” lecture will be held virtually at 1 p.m. Sunday at youtube.com/user/Lewisandclarknhp Robert Heacock will present “Early Explorers of the Pacific Northwest — A Long Time Coming.” Heacock will discuss Spanish, British, French, Russian and American efforts to claim the last “unexplored” coastline on the planet, and how their competitive struggles shaped the ...